Inky_TS_#10

Today we continued practicing TOEFL speaking. First, we went over transcribed speech from last session. Student didn't have grammatical mistakes, but grammar was very simple. She gave two reasons, but when we read it over, she realized that her reason one and reason two were very similar and not very clear for the listener. Then, we did type question 1, 2, and tried 3. Student did well on question type 1 and 2. It was our first time practicing type integrated question. So, student had difficulty using both sources (audio and text) to support her answer. She spend most of the time elaborating on what was spoken in audio and when she realized that she didn’t cover information from the text, it was too late as she ran out of time. For the next question, we decided to try to practice more integrated types of questions for TOEFL speaking section. Students need to work on generating clear and structured answer in limited time. She has good ideas and can talk about it when she is not timed, but once we start timing her answer, she looses her ideas. Also, we working on clear closure of the answer. She forgets to look at the timer, so sometimes she missed the opportunity to have clear closure of her speech.